Yesterday we caught the train into Newcastle NSW and wandered through to Darby Street for lunch. Lovely cool day, just the odd sprinkle on the brollies but otherwise nice weather. Snapped a few pics here and there.
Yesterday we caught the train into Newcastle NSW and wandered through to Darby Street for lunch. Lovely cool day, just the odd sprinkle on the brollies but otherwise nice weather. Snapped a few pics here and there.
Wrecked after morning PT
Feeding Pushy and Mouse mealy grubs with chopsticks while recovering. They quickly let me know this wasn’t fast enough.
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Took a walk around the sports fields, on the way to pick up wine before the Four Day Crisis arrives. Lots of birds about, but loved seeing these ones gathered.
Why so many ravens all poking at the ground together? More flying over, and hanging about in trees, this is just the ones on the ground.
And a lovely little group of ibis, including 6 white ibis and 2 straw-necked ibis. No bins for these birds, much better pickings up here at Lake Macquarie. (But I bet they've already visited the Awaba Tip not too far away!)
Took a wander down by the lake, and spotted a pair of scaly-breasted lorikeets at their nest hole in the side of a tall gum tree.
There were quite a few juveniles in the troop, noisily nagging a parent for food. Here's one that has been shooed away a short distance, still begging for food hopefully.
Early evening yesterday, Newcastle Road next to Jesmond Park, and it's The Gathering for the local troop of sulphur-crested cockatoos. All up I reckon there was about four dozen, screeching as they flew over, stopping for a bit on the power lines and street lamps and trees. And the odd lawn and letterbox for a quick nibble.
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The last of my photographs of dubious quality.
More from other counties to follow.
Yellow-tinted Honeyeater (Ptilotula flavescens)
LC Least Concern
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White-gaped Honeyeater (Stomiopera unicolor)
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Rufous Owl (Ninox rufa)
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Masked Woodswallow (Artamus personatus)
LC Least Concern
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Sacred Kingfisher (Todiramphus sanctus)
LC Least Concern
Wait for it!! 31 seconds of absolute joy from these New Holland Honeyeaters
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Whistling Kite (Haliastur sphenurus)
LC Least Concern
Airways look in the storm water channels. Here's a white faced heron, waiting for food to flow under its feet where it can stab at it. Wallsend NSW.
Stepping out of the eastern wing of Marketown in Newcastle West, I heard some screeching. A few dozen little corellas were sitting in the branches of this big, branchy fig tree next to the storm water channel.
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White-winged Triller (Lalage tricolor)
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Red-capped Plover (Anarhynchus ruficapillus)
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